An 11-year-old girl, whom seemed like a normal, sweet girl,
allegedly beat a 2-month old baby Zuri, to death over the weekend when the baby
stay overnight with her and her mother in Cleveland.
"I definitely trusted her," Whitehead said.
"I never thought my baby would be put in some type of harm."
Trina Whitehead, 31, said that she and the girl's mother
were best friends and that she never saw anything in the girl's behavior that
concerned her and that it was the girl who asked the baby stay overnight with her and her
mother. Whitehead said her two
daughters, who are 8 and 7 years old, previously stayed the night at the
friend's home in suburban Wickliffe without any reported problems.
The 11-year-old has been charged with murder and is being
held in a juvenile detention center. A judge entered a not guilty plea for the
girl on Monday and has ordered a psychiatric evaluation.
Wickliffe police say the girl awakened her mother at
about 3:30 a.m. Friday holding the unconscious infant, Zuri Whitehead. The
2-month-old died during surgery about six hours later. The medical examiner has
not released a cause of death, but police have said Zuri received extensive
head and internal injuries.
Whitehead said the 11-year-old's mother called her around
9:30 p.m. "She called and said she's sorry for what happened,"
Whitehead said. "She can't believe what's going on."
She has been trying to keep herself busy preparing for
Zuri's funeral on Saturday while relying heavily on her faith.She called Zuri,
which means "beautiful" in Swahili, "the most perfect baby
ever."
"All she wanted was to be was held and loved,"
Whitehead said.
Source: AP
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